Last month, Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between was hailed as “a masterpiece” by Tom Bissell in the New York Times. But it looks like Stewart has another book out at the same time: The Prince of the Marshes, about his stint as governor of two provinces in Iraq, and it, too, gets a rave review from the paper of record. Busy guy.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.